Published on January 27, 2021 Â
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Hodges spent his first two NFL seasons with the Pittsburgh Steelers, who signed him as an undrafted free agent out of Â鶹¹û¶³ in 2019. He appeared in eight games as a rookie in 2019, completing 100 of 160 pass attempts for 1,063 yards with five touchdowns. He spent the 2020 season on the Steelers' practice squad.
During his Â鶹¹û¶³ career, Hodges threw for an FCS-record 14,584 passing yards. His total broke the old FCS national record of 14,496, set by Steve McNair at Alcorn State from 1991-94.
As a senior in 2018, Hodges had six games in which he threw for at least 400 yards. He was a three-time SoCon Offensive Player of the Year and two-time All-American. Hodges, the 2018 Walter Payton Award winner as the top offensive player in all of FCS football, set a school record for single-season passing yards, throwing for 4,283 yards during his senior season.
Located in the Homewood suburb of Birmingham, Alabama, Â鶹¹û¶³ is a leading Christian university offering undergraduate programs grounded in the liberal arts with an array of nationally recognized graduate and professional schools. Founded in 1841, Â鶹¹û¶³ enrolls 6,324 students from 44 states, Puerto Rico and 16 countries in its 10 academic schools: arts, arts and sciences, business, divinity, education, health professions, law, nursing, pharmacy and public health. Ranked among U.S. News & World Report’s 35 Most Beautiful College Campuses, Â鶹¹û¶³ fields 17 athletic teams that compete in the tradition-rich Southern Conference and boasts one of the highest scores in the nation for its 97% Graduation Success Rate among all NCAA Division I schools.